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The collection contains literary papers, including notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of sketches, novels and scripts; personal papers, including school and university work, notebooks, and ephemera; audio-visual material; and personal effects and artefacts, spanning from Douglas Adams's childhood to his death in 2001. In addition there is a quantity of press cuttings postdating his death. Media other than paper include sound recordings (chiefly reel-to-reel studio tapes; some cassettes); photographs, 35 mm transparencies and plastic negatives (a large quantity of photographic material is from 'Last Chance to See'); and digital backup tapes.

Is enjoying 'total oblivion for a month with some nice people' in Greece.

Reports from Rio, where life is 'a bit like being trapped in a gigantic Barry Manilow song', and discusses the progress of the Last Chance to See research. Manuscript.

Attempts, at length, to explain that his address has changed. Typescript.

Answers questions on photographs, plot, differences between the incarnations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the second television series, the third novel, the possibility of a new record album and of further radio episodes and of a film, and 'Marvin's career as a solo recording artist'. Typescript.

Discusses Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, Bureaucracy, Last Chance to See and other projects.

Asks for the rules of Brockian Ultra Cricket, which Adams provides. Manuscript and typescript.

Mostly desk diaries, some pocket. Most used sporadically; some have very few entries. Doodles and notes feature in addition to appointments.

1. 'Doctor Snuggles and the Peanut Solving Machine' synopsis. Typescript with manuscript annotations.

2. 'Professor Emerald and the Flying Carpet' synopsis. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

3. 'Rocket Adventures . . . Continued'.

4. 'Dr Snuggles and the Worm-Mobile' scripts. Typescript.

5. Synopsis and script for 'Doctor Snuggles and the Nervous River' episode 1. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

6. Synopsis and script for 'Doctor Snuggles and the Nervous River' episode 2. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

7. Synopsis and script for 'Doctor Snuggles and the Nervous River' episode 3. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

8. Synopsis and script for 'Doctor Snuggles and the Nervous River' episode 4. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

9. Synopsis and script for 'Doctor Snuggles and the Nervous River' episode 5. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

10. 'Doctor Snuggles Holiday Special' comic.

1. Synopsis. Copied corrected typescript.

2. Script. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

   In Hitchhiker, M.J. Simpson discusses Adams, Lloyd and Jones being approached by Paul and Linda McCartney to write what would become, written by the McCartneys and Geoff Dunbar, Rupert and the Frog Song.